Cilia: Long, tapered, pale gray to balck, unbranched or forked cilia all along the margins.

Lookalikes: Heterodermia leucomela has similar long, linear lobes & long, black cilia, but it is usually paler & the lobe tips are sorediate. Its cortex is K+ yellow (atranorin). The rare Californian species Teloschistes californicus has fuzzy, gray, subfruticose branches, but they are much broader & irregular & are not ciliate.